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•: ’-'V' V 4 -* *> '•v> . « J »*,*» ■y THE PEOPLE, BARNWELL. S. 0. “A THOUSAN' POUNDS” SYNOPSIS. — Solomon Blnkus, veteran scout and "interpreter, and his young companion. Jack Irons, passing through Horse Valley, New York, In (September, 1768, to warn settlers of an In dian uprising, rescue from a band" of redskins the wife and daughter of Colonel Hare of England.' Jack distinguishes himself in the fight and later rescues Margaret Hare from the river. Jack and Mar- • garet fall in love. On reaching Fort Stanwlx, Colonel Hare says both are too young to marry. The Hare famiLy Ball for Kpgland, and the Irons fa'mily-move to Albany. Unrest grows In the colonies be cause of the oppressive measures of the English government. Solo mon and Jack visit Boston. XIn November, 1770, Jack goes to Philadelphia and works In Ben jamin Franklin’s printing plant. Nearly three years later Margaret writes him from London, remind ing him that her youth Is passing and sayipg she has appealed to Doctor Franklin. . CHAPTER III—Continued. This letter went to the heart of the JLj young man.^ She had deftly set before ‘ him the gross unfairness of delay. He felt It. Ever since the parting he had been eager to go, but ids father was not'a rich man and the family was • large. His own salary had been little more than was heeded for clothing and .1 books. That autumn it had been uibled and the editor i assured n that higher pay would he forth- ^^ > mlng. He hesitated to tell the girl >w little he earned and how small, Iven measured In money, his progress had seemed to be. He was in despair * when his friend Solomon Binkus ar rived from Virginia. For two* years the latter had been looking after the Interests of Major Washington out ipi the Ohio river country. They dined <*. * * together that evening at the Crooked Billet and Solomon told him of his ad- ventures in the West and frontier sto ries of the notorious one-legged robber, Micah Harpe, and his den on the shore of the Oldo and of the cunning of the outlaw in evading capture. ' Solomon read the girl’s letter and said: - “If 1 was you I’d swim the big pond If nec’sary. This ’ere is a real slmon pure, four masted womern an’ she wants you fer captain. As the feller said when he seen a black fox, ‘Come on, boys, it’s time fer to wear out yer boots.’ ” “I’m tied to ray job.” “Then break yer baiter,” said Solo mon. "I hmen’t money enough to get mar- rled rffUTkee^Ur n ife.” “What an ignorant cuss you in*:” Sol omon exclaimed. “You don’t ’pear to know when ye’re well off.’’ “What do you mean?” ■' “I mean that ye’re wutii at least a thousan’ pounds cash tnohey.” --”1 would not ask my father for help and I have only fo^y pounds in the hank,” Jack answered. By IRVING BACHELLER Copyright by Irving Bach«ll«r —slick duds, plenty o’ cakes an’ pies an’ no slightin’ the minister er the rum bar’l. “Major Washington glvo me a letter to take to Ben Franklin on toother side o’ the ocean. Ye see ev’ry letter that’s sent ercrost Is opened an’ read afore It gits'to him essen It’s guarded keer- ful. This ’ere one, I guess, has suthin’ powerful secret in It. He pays all the bills. So I’ll be goin’ erlong with ye on the nex’ ship an’ when we git thar I u:ant to shake hands with the gal and tell her how to make ye behave.” That evening Jack went to* the man ager of the Gazette and asked for a six months’ leave of absence. CHAPTER IV The Crossing. There were curious -events in the voyage of Jack hnd Solomon. They sailed on or about the eleventh of Oc tober, 1773. Their ship was the Snow which had arrived the week before with some fifty Irish servants, inden- tnred for, their passage. Tfte food was lity, the c of poor quality, the cooking a tax upon jaw, palate and digestion, the service unclean. When good weather came, by and by, and those \fho had not tasted food for days began to feel the pangs of hunger the ship was filled with a most passionate lot of pilgrims. It was then that Solomon presented tlm petition of the passengers to the captaii.. - „ “Cap’n, we re bout wore out with whale meat an’ slohgollion. We’re all down by the head.” “So’m I,” said the captain. “This •’ere man had a good recommend an’ said he could cook perfect.” “A man like that kin cook the pas sengers with their own heat,” said Solomon. “I feel like my belly was full o 1 rocks. If you'll let me into the galley, I’ll rigid ye up an’ sailed close Ir: shore. Each boat that went for passengers had its own land ing. Its men threw a rope across the breaker's. This' was quickly put on ~a windlass. With the rope winding on Its windlass the boat was Blowly hauled through the surge, its occu pants being drenched and sprinkled with salt water. They made their way to the Inn of the Three Kings where twoTnen stopd watching as they ap proached. One of l them Jack recog nized as tlie man Slops with the blacfc pipe in his mouth. “That’s him,” said the rpan with the black pipe, pointing at Solomon, whereupon ‘the latter wifs’ promptly arrested., “What have I doneT’ 1iRisked. “You’ll learn directly at ’eadquar- ters,” sail _*he tUlcer. Salomon shook hands' with Jack and said: ‘Tin glad I met ye,” and turned and walked away with the two then. Jack was tempted to follow them, but fpollrtg a hidden purpose in Solo mon’s conduct went into the inn. So the friends parted. Jack being puzzled and distressed by the’ swift change In the color of their affairs. The letter to Doctor Franklin was In his pocket—a^ lucky circumstance. (Edited by O. D'lUflae Werdrop. Editor of Radio Morchandlslnf.) TTe decided to go to London and deliver the letter and seek advice regarding the relief of “Solomon. At the desk in the lobby of the Three Kings he learned that he must take the post chaise for Canterbury, which would not be leaving until G p. m. This gave him time to take counsel In behalf of his friend. Turning tc“'uL , d f bo doob, he met Captain I’reston, who greeted him with great warmth and wished to know where was Major Binkus. Jack told the captain of the arrest of his friend. “I expected It,” said Preston. “So I have waited here for your. ship. It’s that mongrel chap on the Star who got a tarring from . Binkus and his shift the ! ^ r I pn ^ s - sa ' v Binkus on your deck. By C. E. HAMANN The following experiments, while in volving no new principles or theories, may nevertheless prove interesting to the broadcast listener; particularly when a little varlety^In the evening program Is de*iis&i)L—A • All the apparatus required Is a two- „ stage audio amplifier, a single head phl^ne and ia loud speaker (a srffgle phone with a horn attached to It will do for a loud speaker). For experiment No. 1: Connect the head phone to the Input terminals of the^ampllfier, 1. e., across the* primary of the flrsL-audlo transformer. Light the tubes and plug In the loud speak er on the second stage In the usual manner. (See sketch.) Hold the head phone with hands cupped around It to form a mouthpiece and talk into It in a low voice. The voice will be reproduced in the loud speaker with greatly increased volume. The reader can easily think of a dozen different ways of amusing him self with this at his next party. Set Input ttrm/ffuts r4fv< HewfMcm u}fa tronfmitfer' way o’ the wind an’ the course o’ the ship. I’ll swing -the how toward heaven 'stead o' hell an’ keep her p'lnted straight tm-’—it won't cost ye a penny. They’s too much swearin’ on this 'ere sldp. 'Can’t nobody he a Christian with his guts a'-b’illn’. His tongue'll break loose an’ make his soul look like a waggin wKh a smashed wheel an’ a bu'sted ex. A cook could do more good here than a minister.” “Can you cook?” . “You try me an’ I'll agree to happy ye up so ye won’t know yerself. Yer ft k So omon out his,wallet and re-" moved from it a worn and soiled piece of pa|*er and studied the memoranda 4t contained. Then he did some cipher ing with a piece of lead.- In a moment he said: “You have got a thousan' an’ fifteen pounds an’ six sliillin’. fer to do with as ye please an' no questions a liked — nary one.” “You mean you’ve got it.” “Which means that Jack Irons owns jf b'de" horns an’ taller.” kTe»trs came to the .hoy's eves. He |>krd down for a moment without Tpenking. “Thank you. Solomon,” lie ■Paid presently. “I can't use your money, it wouldn't be'right.” Solomon shut one j\ve an’ squinted with the other as if he were taking aim along the top of a gun barrel. Then hj* shook his head and drawled: “Cat’s blood an’ gunpowder! That ’ere Ships me in the face an’ kicks me on the shin,” Solomon answered. “I’ve walked' an’ paddled eighty' mile, in a day an' been stabbed an’ shot at an’ , had to run fer my life, which it ain’t no fun—you hear to »m*. Wh* dq ye s'posc I done it fer but you an’ my kentrv? There ain't nobodv o’ mv thev (bVERMAUl-Ert r,y£ ST feu: /J name a-n ! —l-Hood on—fills s!de"7T fTie" .ocean not nobody at all. An’ if I kin’t work fer you. Jack, I’d just er- bout as sonin quit. This ’ere money nlu’-t no" good to me Yept fer body cover ah' powder ah’ hails. I'd as leave ..drop it in the river. Ii bothers me. ~! don't need it. When 1 git hinu_ I go an’ hide it in the hush some what's—j(*|St to git it out o’ my way. 1 been thiiikin’ all up tin* road from Yir- giuny o’ this ’ere pd damnable money an’ wltht 1 were a-goin’ to do with it an’ what it could do to me. An’, sez I, I’m ergoin’ to ask Jack to take it an’ use it fer tfrwall ’twixt him an’ trouble, tin’ the idee hurried me erlong—hon est! Kind o’ maTI? meJjapjiy. Course, if I had a wife an’ childern, Ytwould be.different, but I ain't got no one. An’ now ye tell me ye don’t want it, which It makes me feel lonesomer ’n a tarred. -Tory ‘an’ kind o’ sorrowful—ayes, sir. It does.” > - 'T 3 *>' meat won’t 1«* raw ner petrified an there won’t be no inseck.s in the. bis-'* cult. ' So Solomon was installed as cook and happiness returned to the sldp. In the course of the voyage they overhauled tin* Star, a four-masted ship bound from New York to DovVr. Tor hours the A wo vessels were so close that the passengers engaged in a kind of battle. Those on the Star be- I gan it by hurling turnips at the n»cn on the other ship who respondedavi^h a valley nf apple Solomon’s voice sank to a whisper. “Forgive me," said Jack. ”1 didn’t low yoii felt that way. But I’m glad ■^’oii do. I'll take it on the understand Ing that as long as I live what I have Khali also be yours." * ‘Tvo two hundred poun' an’ six shil lin' i'n my pocket art' a lot more hid in the hush. It’s tiil ydurn * to itlie last round penny. I reckon it’ll putty nigh bridge the slough. I want ye to he married respectable like a gentleman- Solomon discerned on the deck of the strange’r Captain I’ivston and an English ollieer of the name of Hawk whom he had known at Oswego and hailed them. Then said Solomon: ' it s a shipload O’ Tories who’ve had enough of 'Anveriky.' They’s-a cuss on thaf tub that I helped put a coat o’ far an’ feathers on in the Ohio kentry. lie’s the' one with thei black pipe In. his mouth. I don’t know ids name, bub they use to call him Slops—the dirti est, lo\v-downdest; d—o Tory traitor that ever lived. lit iped the Injuns out fliar in the West. See that ’ere black pipe? Alius carries it an ids mouth Yept when 'he’s Palin’.. I guess he goes to sletp with it. It’s one o’ the fea* tures o’ his face. We tarred him plenty now you hear to me.” That evening a boat was lowered and the captain of the Snow crossejl a hundred yards of quiet sea to dine with the captain of the Stan-in the cabin of the latter. Next day a stiff wind caiiie~out o^t the west. Because he had to talte off his coat w Idle, he was worklhg in the galley, Solomon gave the precious letter Into Jack’s keeping. About noon on the twenty-ninth of November they made 4lover and an-i cliored in the I)o\vns. Deal was about throe miles away and its boats came -j- aT ior them: They Qiade a circuit and* 4 as I did, and proclaimed ids purpose, So I am here to do what I can to help you. I cannot forget that you two men saved my life. Are there any papers on his person which are likely to make him trouble?” “No," said Jack, thinking of the let ter lying safely in his own pocket. “That’s the important thing,” ITes- ton resumed. “Binkus is a famous scout who is known to he anti-British. Such a man coming here is supposed to l»e carrying papers. Between our selves, they would arrest him on any pretext. You leave this matter in my hands. If lit* had no papers lfe’11 be coming on In a day or two.” “I’d like to go with you to find him,” said Jack. “Better nut," I’reston jrtiswered with a smile. . - _ “Why?" “Because I suspect youkhave the pa- 1 pers. Tliey’U get you, too, if they learn you are his friend. Keep away from him. Sit quietly here in the inn until tlie post chaise starts for Can terbury. Don’t Ui4anyone pick a quar rel with you, and remember this is all a saered confidence between friends.” “I thank you and my heart Is in every word,” said Jack as he pressed the hand of the captain. “After all, friendship is a tiling above politics— even the politics of these bitter days.* He sat down with a sense of relief and spent tlie rest of tlie afternoon reading the London papers, although iie longed to go and look at tlie fort ress of Deal Castle, He had tea at five and set out on the mail carriage, with ids box and bag. 'an hour later. The road was rough and muddy, with deep holes in it. At one point tlie chaise rattled and bumped over a plowed field. Before-dark he saw a man-hanging in a gibbet by tlie road side. At ten o’clock they passed—flie huge gate, of Canterbury and drew up at an inn called the King's Head. The landlady and two waifers attended for orders. He had some supper and went to bed. Awakened at 5 a. m. by the sound of a bugle, he arose and dressed hurriedly and found the post chaise waiting. They went on the King's road from Canterbury and n mile cut they came to a big, white gate in the dim J.ight. of the early morning. young jmtn clapped cirtuif jKk station ns “England,” “Australia" or “Honolulu” (the sky is the limit). The effect on the audience will be startling, to say the least. As a precautionary measurg, how ever, first make sure that there are no “hurd-holied hams” among the guests; otherwise.you may start a rloL Getting back again to the actual ap plication :* If the audio amplifier is a separate unit, the connections are very simple, as seen by the accora- panying sketch. If, however, the am plifier Is in the same cabinet with the receiver It will be necessary .to con nect two wires to the primary of the AFTER AN OPERATION Mrs. Wilke Couldn't Get Back Her Strength Until She Took Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Rochester, Minnesota.—*T had a vecy serious operation and it seemed as u How to Connect the Apparatus for the Experiments Described in This Article. up the loud speaker in the parlor where the guests are assembled and run a long telephone cord to the radio set In some other part of the house. Tune In a selection front some local broadcast station and plug In the loud 'speaker. At the end of the selection switch off the detector circuit and do your own “announcing," giving the them out to the phone which Is to be used ns a transmitter. A telephone jack and plug will sim plify cutting the “transmitter” irt and out of the circuit. Use a double pole, open-circuit Jack. This can be left permanently connected to the set, as It will not affect Its operation In any way, except when the head phone Is plugged in. If a broadcast program Is being re ceived and it Is desired to Interject a little "homemade” announcing, first cut off the detector circuit by turn ing the detector rheostat to the “off” position and then plug in the head phone “transmitter." Another similar experiment which produces rather unexpected results consists of connecting the loud speak er to the input side of the amplifier and listening with a pair of head phones plugged Into the second stage. The loud speaker will act as a micro phone and pick up any sounds pro duced near It. These yvlll be ampli fied and reproduced In the bead phones with tremendous volume. Tf the loud speaker Is located In some otl'.C r P art of the house It will pick up vote?* from the same room and reproduce them In the head phones ns clearly as though the listener were In the room where the person was speaking. This last experiment may prove highly entertaining, if conducted on a Wednesday evening when sister’s beau Is calling.—Radio News. I could not get my health back after it. 1 suffered with pain almost con stantly. My sister came to help take care of me, and she was' Pink ham’ ble Compound - for nervousness and a run-down condition. She had me try some of it, and' in a very few days’ time I began to feel better. i taking Lydia £. kham’s Vegeta* flr.t amplifying transforms am) bring tat^JLmrSjwif S after taking a couple of bottles more I was up and helping around, and now I am strong and healthy again and am still taking it. it is a pleasure for me to write this to you, and I hope that many other women who are suffering like I was will find out about your med icine. I will give any information I possibly can.” — Mrs. James Wilke, 933 E. Center Street, Rochester, Minn. Remember, the Vegetable Compound has a record of fifty years of service and thousands of women praise its merit, as does Mrs. Wilke. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Private Text- Book upon ** Ailments Peculiar to W»*- men ” will be sent you free upon re- S iest Write to the Lydia E. Pink ham edicine Company, Lynn Mass. Sheep Came to U. S. Early Sonic of the sheep which roam the ranges today are Mayflower descend ants, for Wlltshlres of large size and fine wool came to Plymouth, says Na ture Magazine. The Dutch brought to New York long-legged sheep -with coats of course wool, and The Swedish settlers of New Jersey came with rams and ewes to settle In the new land. 201-A Tubes Use Less Current Than Old Style Thousands of broadcast listeners who have radio receivers consisting of detector and two stages of audio-fre quency amplification are still using the original UV-201 tubes purchased when they installed their sets. These tubes have been superseded by the U^-201-A’s which consume much legs current than the," old-style tubes. Consequently, when the Inevitable change Is made to tlie new tubes, a greater resistance must be provided in the rheostats. If the amplifying unit has a rheostat for p Is a fan to know* one tube from another If the tubes happen to be removed from their sockets at t(ny time? The answer to this Is quite simple. Before going about the test, set up a list of symbols as follows: Ilad^) Fre quency Amplification—R, Detector—D, Audio Frequency Amplification—A. Then add numbers 'where more than one tube* is jrting in the same capac ity. Thus, if you have a five-tube set using two stages of radio frequency amplification, detector and two stages of audio frequency amplification the symbols will read as follows: R-l, R-2, each tube, as is usually the case, there Ifiiv resistence rhtosfots to socketF- to - A’gotf te socket F- ' Set up these symbols, go about the test and after you have found the best combination for the 'tithes start from left to right in your set and remove one tube at a time. With a pointed in- ‘strument scrape the symbol on the bottom of each tube. As far, as tlie test itself Is concerned, don’t think you can complete it in fif teen minutes. ’•» Heads Nurses in Siam Ml^w UVn Piroshaw, a Filipino girl who served her‘"lurntlonal apprentice ship In American hospitals and train ing schools, has beeh v ph»<’«“<l in charge of the first public healtlT nursing cen ter which has been opened* ! lt Bang kok, Siam. ** A young .man dapped his mouth to the window.and shouted: "Sixpence, yer honor." It was a real turnpike and Jack stuck his head out of the window- for a look at it. They stopped for break- } fast at an inn far down the. pike and ! went on through Sittinghourn, Faver- !' sham, Rochester and the lovely valley of the River Medway, of which Jactpj had read. —-At every stop it amused him to hear the words “chaise an' pair,” flying from host to waiter and waiter to hostler and hack in the wink of an eye. Jack spent the night at the Rose In Dartford and went on next morning over (ladshill and Shootershill and Blackheath. Then the Thames and Greenwich arid Deptford, from which he could see the crowds and domes and towers of tlie big city. A little past two o’clock he ro^e over London bridge and was set down at the Spread Eagle, where he paid a siiiliing a mile for his passage and ate his dinner. Such; in those (lays, was the cross ing and the trip up to London, as’Jack describes it in his letters. — How the kow Resistance Rheostats of a Standard Amplifier Are Connected Up to Be Used With 201-A Vacuum Tubes. jhf a simple way .to do this without sub stituting new rheostats, adding outside resistances, >>r changing tie* appear ance of the set. Audio-frequency amplifying tubes are not critical; one control will, there fore, do for both tubes.- Remove all Connecting wires from both rheostats except the current sup-| ply* wire' to the first rheostat. Con-! nec-t- the rheostats together as shown, i bridging across the adjacent posts with ’ bus wire or (if more resistem e is want ed than Is pfforded by the rnmbineri * rheostats) with a section of resist- i ance wire from a discarded resist- | »ance unit. A connection Is then run . from the* remaining binding p"St of tlie joined rheostats to each of the two sockets, taking the place of the ^ original connections.- ■ Tlie conibiiiod of tlie I rheostats will make the proper re slstance for two 201-A tithes when.con nected in this manner, besides allow ing ample variation, using either or "both knobs to.secure brilliart<\\ of the How Spider-Web Coil Mounting Can Be Made By O. L. VAN DYKE. JR. Tlie following, together with tlie Il lustration, is a description of an ex- cell.eot form of .spider-web coil mount ing. Probably the most impressive feature of this arrangement Is Its compactness, compared to other mount ings. The construction 4ft simplicity itsHf and the parts requlred'dlYe few. Referring to the sketch:” A is a knoli and dial; B is a piece of brass or phosphor bronze bent so as to form filaments. 1 ? t / \ ‘lit > f/; " r 4 A snv, W “She is a iQveiy girl, Jack, congratulate you.” (TO BE CONTINUED.) Use Proper Tube in Right Place in Set It h'as often bpen said that no two watches run alike. -This can be ex tended to tak^-ln vacuum tubes even* to a greater degree. There are hun dreds of things that may make one tube function differently from another. .True as it may be that a J’soft” or “gassy” tube will make a better de tector, it lias been proved that some “hard" tubes are unexcelled for de tection even where a “soft" tube was recommended in tlie original hookup. It Is quite probable that some of the amplifying tubes in. your set are better suited for detectors. Ib is also prob able that your results might he bet tered by placing the .tube now in the secorid stage of audio in tlie first stage and vice versa. Like many other things in radkg this ’ is best determined by a dual test. The problem that arises during these tests Is: It may be easy enough to deter mine which tube works best here and which one works best there, but bow Details of the Spider-Web Coil Mount ing. The Coil Forms Can Be Made of Any Good Insulating Material. a support for the coil and shaft; CftTs a Imsiiing which serves to prevent shaft I* frwm sliding. ^I’lie shaft, D, is a U-incli brass rodxibout 3^ inches lung witli a slit near its end to take tlie end of tlie spider-web obil form E. F is the base of the second coll form which is attached to the baseboard, H, by a brass bracket, G. Since the spi der-web coils are not heavy, no trou ble should he experienced in balancing the movable coll. If tin* weight of the coil is too great a counte^ialance inay-be attached to the upper end of the form, ns shown at J.—Radio Newa. Removal of Tubes Before changing tlie battery connec tions to a set, tlie bulbs should al ways be removed. The most careful of radio fans allow short circuits to occur, and even If the connection lasts only an Instant, it Is usually bnough to blow the bulbs out, if the "B” bat teries are In the circuit Back Given Out? It's hard to do one's work when every day brings morning lameness, throbbing backache and a dull, tired feeling. If you suffer thus, why not find out the cause? Likely it’a your kidneys. Headaches, dizziness and bladder irregularities may give further proof that your kidneys need help. Don’t risk neglect! L!se Doan’s Pills. Thousands have been helped by Doan’s. They should help you. Ask your neighbor! A South Carolina Case ii—J. R (Jrlttin. chief Of police North St., Belton. S. C., says: ”1 was troubled with my kldn*-ys and was annoyed with sharp, pierc ing pains through my back. When I bent over, stitches caught me over my hips. 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